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"[My mother] thinks children need a father and a mother and I agree with her. I can't think of anything worse than being brought up by two gay dads. Some people might not agree with that. Fine! That's just my opinion. I'm not speaking on behalf of the gay community. In fact, I don't feel like I'm part of any 'community.' The only community I belong to is humanity and we've got too many children on the planet, so it's good not to have more." - British actor Rupert Everett, speaking to the Sunday Times.
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Many of you have probably already drawn the impression that I'm a little bit of a health nut. What bothers me terribly is that oftentimes the healthier choice for our families is usually a lot more expensive and, sometimes, simply not at all affordable. There is so much fear mongering in our media that we've become totally numb to headlines, "Coconut oil can save you from cancer!" "Man dies on the clean eating diet!" "New superfood, eat a pound every day to become immortal!" "Toxins in sun screen causing skin cancer!" "Wear sun screen or get skin cancer!" And it goes on and on and on. It is totally the boy that called wolf and the general consensus now is: "Everything is bad for us so I'm not going to bother changing how I'm eating or what I'm buying!" Which is totally understandable but also just awful.
On Facebook I have about 300 "friends" and they all have either stopped following me or have decided to put up with my shares about GMOs, the horrors of factory farming, the dangers of vaccines, the dangers of round up etc. etc. etc. Every now and again I'll post something that hits a nerve and never more so then when I posted excitedly about how I had eliminated cows milk from our household. People were offended! Seriously offended! I wasn't telling them THEY had to give up milk but my goodness you would have thought I was! The responses were as follows, "Giving up bacon too then?" "Milk is a good source of calcium!" "Why on earth would you do that?" And there were some much harsher comments that I won't bother you with. It really surprised me and I look back at it now and laugh. For one thing: Milk is NOT a good source of anything for humans and I'm lactose intolerant so it just didn't need to be in our house, the moment I dumped it down the drain because it went bad I vowed to never buy it again. On another note I also know for a fact that milk is perfectly designed to take a 60 pound calf and turn it into a 900 pound steer and my goals in life do not include becoming a 900 pound steer.
So, I'm a hypocrite because I still eat cheese and butter however, once I eliminated milk from my cooking I also found a million and one ways where I did NOT need to add butter or cheese either. Try it, you'll be amazed because most of the time you will never notice that you didn't add butter to a dinner. (NOTE: I am not much of a baker so I'm sorry to say I have absolutely no help in how to make the perfect pie crust without butter but I am sure that it has been done and would only require a google search to find out about it.) Here's a big one: I made mashed potatoes the other day with NO milk and they were the BEST mashed potatoes I have ever made. Of course they still included butter… baby steps.
What does all this rambling translate to? I eliminated milk from my cooking and I believe I'm healthier for it and its saving us money. I've also cut back on cheese and butter and, of course, that translated to the exact same thing. I am saving money. Dairy products are expensive!
I also make all of my cleaning products. You can read my post about how it saves me around $1,000 a year and it only costs me about 10 minutes of my time a month in making them. Oh my gosh I can't tell you how many times I've read and heard people talk about household products, "There's no proof they're bad for you, why bother?!" "They have technology you hippies don't have to make better and safer cleaning products then you ever could!" Well, you can save money but when it comes to my family's health why would I take the chance? From air fresheners to countless different cleaning products and laundry soaps: they are FULL of chemicals. Chemicals that people have to wear hazmat suits to handle before they're mixed, bottled and sold and then we bring them home, put them on our clothes and on our skin and in our air. And they're expensive!
Personally, if we can afford it, I just don't take chances on my health. Everything I have mentioned so far has SAVED me money so I don't really see any real argument against cutting back on dairy or making our own household products. (I just made my first ever batch of perfume too and, I can't believe it, but it actually smells like perfume!)
Now that I have mentioned those choices that also save me money the elephant in the room smacks me with his trunk and forces me to sometimes choose whether to save money or put my health first. It should be black and white: of course I'm going to choose my health first! But it is RARELY that black and white and anyone who is living on a tight income right now knows exactly what I'm talking about. You practically have to be rich to be able to go to the grocery store and afford to buy anything organic.
Which is why I'm coming at this from a different direction entirely. What if instead we didn't buy it at all? What if, instead, we grew it or made it ourselves or just learned to go without? One of my biggest frugal suggestions when it came to grocery shopping and saving money (check out my post about that here) was to STOP buying it because you ran out but first, instead, to try to eliminate the habit and see how you do without it. We really don't need near as much as we think we do, we don't need our homes smelling like fake flowers that are actually just chemicals, we don't need snacks that are nothing but empty calories when we have leftovers in the fridge and supper cooking on the stove, we don't need a single thing that has EVER gone to waste in our refrigerators, we don't need that chicken Alfredo boxed dinner when we can make our own for a fraction of the cost. Its time to get honest with ourselves and what we actually NEED. And this is truly going to be different for every single household.
We get so used to having luxuries that we forget that they are, in fact, luxuries! My great grandma must have rolled over in her grave seeing how much butter I used to use so casually and so flippantly in almost every meal I made. What a waste! What an excess of calories I didn't need that I couldn't even tell had been added!
My challenge has given me what I believe to be a much healthier lifestyle at a fraction of the cost of how I was living before. The savings I've found by creating a healthier environment has given me the opportunity to afford the organic staples I never thought I could afford otherwise.
There's a lot of food for thought in your post. We've been "eating down" the kitchen this month and staying home instead of eating out. It's the little things that add up. We'd rather splurge on a better meal than eat out more often. Thanks for posting this and giving us something to think about.
I found your post very interesting and thought provoking! My husband will be retiring soon and we need to make lots of changes in our lifestyle. You are very right, we have come to think so many things are necessities when in reality they are luxuries. Thank you for sharing at Party in Your PJs! Pinned and shared.
What a great post!
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I find that being frugal and healthy, is an ongoing exercise. There are so many things we can learn and implement and doing so a little at a time makes a big difference. We, too, have found that there are so many things we can do just fine without. 🙂
I love this post! We have made drastic changes in the way we eat this year, not because of money, but because of health. It's amazing how your tastes changes when you cut out certain things. Also, there's such a gratification in growing your own food. Plus, it tastes amazing! I will be sad when our cucumber crop is done for the season.
I'm taking baby steps on cutting back on buying groceries. With just me and the hubby at home now we really don't need as much food as I buy each week.The sad part is that much of it goes to waste and I throw it out. Thank you for the inspiration and I will take baby steps. We appreciate you sharing each week at Celebrate Your Story and wish you a peaceful weekend.
You have to do what is best for you and your family and not let others bring you down. I also have been making our cleaning supplies and laundry soap. I think I will have to try making the perfume. That sounds fun.
Tarah, you're on the right track – except for the smoking, of course. I'm always on about GMOs, Roundup, etc, and have been eating organic, sustainable, etc since forever. I was raised by a mother who was way ahead of her time and who got interested in health and nutrition when she was just a young girl in the 40s. Like you, my mother was a health nut *and* a smoker! She never spared any expense when it came to the most healthful foods and supplements, and she died at 64 from lung cancer. There is nothing more important you can do for your health than quit smoking!
I enjoy reading your posts. We do some of the same things, and we share some of the same thoughts. Of course you would give up milk if you're lactose intolerant! My daughter is, too, so she doesn't drink milk, eat cheese, or use butter at all.
We love our cow and our goats, and continue to happily drink milk, make our own cheese, and butter, as well as grow a garden. My husband and I tend to eat like our grandparents did. They ate veggies, meat (or protein), and some sort of bread/carbs/fruit every day. They were also big fans of milk and milk products. They all seemed to live forever! My grandmother worked until she was 83. She broke one bone, her wrist, after slipping on the ice on a sloped driveway.
All that to say, we are still fans of milk, cheese, and butter at our house. I'd love to live to the ancient age my grandmother llived, and my husbands grandparents lived (well into their 80's and 90's) and as strong and healthy as they were. We find we are healthier and stronger when we have dairy in our diet.
But we also understand that some people's bodies cannot tolerate any of those things. To each his own! Live and let live! You have to know your own body and what it can tolerate and what it can't. In the end, that's what keeps you healthy.
Hi Joanna, You're right down my lane on admitting what we do & don't need. If a person is able and has the space, home grown is truly the best for us and tastes so much better too. Maybe you've seen or heard of the movie, Forks Over Knives. There is a follow-up website that provides so much information and encouragement on how to go about moving in this direction. It is not only a good preventive way to live but also helps in eliminating many diseases that plague people today.
Tarah this was a very thought provoking post. I too struggle with trying to live healthy at the same time working with a limited budget. It shouldn't have to be this way. The most important thing, food should be cheaper than all those boxes of junk food. It's ironic because I now use butter more then before. We used to use margarine here and in fact it is a third of the price of butter. So at least that is one step in the right direction. We also try to not buy anything but choose to repurpose or upcycle what we have. And of course we love our vinegar.
I am in a healthy mood the last 3 months and try to eat and live in the right direction! Thank you for sharing at Sweet Inspiration Link Party
I loved your post and most of your ideas. Health first where ever we can, health is not a luxury item, if we have it then it is most treasured.
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Tarahlynn –
Good morning! Enjoyed your article. Unfortunately, there are several generations of consumers now who don't remember a time when everyone "Made do, used it up, or wore it out," before replacing anything. Sometimes things just never were replaced. Clothes were mended and when they couldn't be mended any more or were too small for anyone, the items were used to make quilts, pot holders, braided rugs, etc. I've always shopped in thrift stores. Had to, there was no choice.
I don't buy or use expensive beauty creams or cosmetics. I can't afford it and the list of chemical ingredients is scary. (I live by the old saying, "If you can't pronounce the ingredient, then it can't be good for you".) I wear makeup but I am not paying ridiculous prices when I can buy similar items at a big box store for a fraction of the cost.
Having not grown up in the US, my son always thought that his "mom" was a bit of a strange bird when it came to meals (some meals had no meat) or making my own cleaning products (yeah!! for vinegar, baking soda, washing soda and borax). It's funny to see a new generation discovering what some of us older folks have known for years.
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DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - At least 36 people were killed and dozens injured when two passenger buses collided along a busy road in north-western Tanzania, police said on Saturday.
Officers said it was still not clear what caused the accident on Friday afternoon in Butiama district, about 1,400 km (840 miles) northwest of the commercial capital, Dar es Salaam.
Traffic accidents are common in east Africa's second-biggest economy, where buses are the main form of public transport between towns and roads are often poor.
A total of 1,878 people were killed in road accidents in Tanzania last year, according to police data.
(Reporting by Fumbuka Ng'wanakilala; Editing by James Macharia amd Andrew Heavens)


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Melissa McLain and Sarah Hubbard
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Melissa McLain and Sarah Hubbard
Seniors Melissa McLain and Sarah Hubbard spent a month last summer in Klaipeda, Lithuania, teaching English to students from 15 to 35 years-old. Both McLain and Hubbard are English Education majors at John Brown University, specializing in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL).
The internship is part of the global studies program offered through the College of Education and Human Services in partnership with the Lithuania Christian College International University.
McLain and Hubbard taught Elementary Conversation I, Elementary Conversation II, and Intermediate Reading to classes of ten to fifteen students each. The people of Lithuania speak Lithuanian and Russian, but many want to add English as a third language to help them compete in the global market.
Both girls agreed that the hardest part of teaching was the language barrier as neither of them knew Lithuanian or Russian. They didn't have a translator to help them communicate to their students.
"The hardest part was when we would be explaining a new activity and we would use hand motions, write on the board and talk really slow, and we would still get blank stares," said McLain.
Hubbard added, "It was really hard at that lower level when they don't have a lot of those filler words that we use all the time that don't mean anything to them. Things like make, do, through, though, or okay; and that's all just going over their heads."
Hubbard had a breakthrough with the students when encouraged them to not focus on getting the language perfect, but rather to embrace the essence of communication.
Both Hubbard and McLain felt well prepared for the experience because of the embedded experience they received in partnership with the Siloam Springs School District. Starting freshmen year, students in JBU's education program observe teachers in local schools to gain experience and real world techniques for handling classroom nuances. Students also participate in classroom environments related to their emphasis of early childhood education, secondary education, math education or TESOL.
"I know I still have a lot to learn," said McLain. "But my time in the high school classrooms really prepared me for those awkward moments when students aren't listening or when something happens and you have to respond professionally."
"My TESOL classes are really practical and were very helpful as I remembered the things I've learned in those classes and could use them," said Hubbard. "We get a lot of strategies to use in different settings. That's how you learn — being in a classroom — and the more experience you get in a classroom the better prepared you are."
McLain said she learned a lot about how to prepare for situations outside of her lesson plan and to think about the best way for her students to learn. The two also learned how to co-teach and work together.
"We came at it from different angles," said Hubbard. "We worked really well together in the classroom and learned how to teach with someone else and rely on them."
"I gave Melissa and Sarah the arduous task of teaching a conversation class for elementary level students and a reading class for intermediate level students on their own. Usually, I reserve this task for more experienced teachers or a team of three people," said Robin Gingerich, English department chair at LCC International University. "Melissa and Sarah 'stepped up to the plate' and did a nice job of planning the curriculum and managing the classroom. They were extremely conscientious and dedicated."
McLain was one of two students to receive the Global Learning Scholarship from JBU's department of education this year. "I really wanted to go but couldn't afford it," she said. "Summer is the time I work, so not only would it be time not earning money but a lot of money I would be spending." The $1,000 scholarship goes to students participating in international teaching and learning programs.
Outside of teaching, the girls visited the Baltic Sea beach, went shopping downtown and went on sightseeing expeditions with their supervisor Dr. Klotz on the weekends. The people of Lithuania weren't as friendly as McLain and Hubbard thought they would be. "I think Americans have a lot of shallow relationships," said McLain. "We have deep ones too, but we're okay with having a lot of friends. There they stick with just a few friends and have those deeper relationships, and they're not very welcoming to outsiders. I didn't expect that to be so hard, but luckily by the end of it I did have friends."
Hubbard said it was hard to break through as the authority figure, especially with the older students. But she did connect with some of the adults and Facebook allows them to continue the friendship as well as help the students practice their English.
McLain and Hubbard both plan on pursuing a teaching career overseas after graduating in the spring.


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Hurricane Jeanne's remnants ripped the mid-Atlantic Tuesday night with floods and tornadoes that killed two people and damaged homes.
Virginia saw one flood-related death after heavy rains forced streams and rivers from theirs banks. Areas of the state received 5-11 inches of rain. Gov. Mark Warner declared a state of emergency Tuesday.
Hundreds of roads were closed throughout Virginia as floodwaters stranded drivers and prompted numerous emergency water rescues. In Roanoke County, the city of Salem appears to be hardest hit, according to a county emergency management spokesperson. Damage assessments were continuing throughout the county Wednesday. Victory Stadium in the city of Roanoke is covered with mud and debris after floodwaters raged through the area Tuesday afternoon.
Farther north in Augusta County, emergency officials say the southeast portion of the county suffered the most damages. Other counties reporting significant flooding include Pittsylvania, Patrick, Frederick, Montgomery and Alleghany. The Virginia Division of Emergency Management (VDEM) reported that 130 people stayed in eight shelters across flooded areas Tuesday night.
Eastern Pennsylvania saw significant flooding in Philadelphia and across Bucks and Montgomery counties. One woman died in Philadelphia when floodwaters swept her off a corner and underneath a car. High water also closed the Schuylkill Expressway for hours during Tuesday evening's rush hour.
In Bucks County, emergency officials issued the second disaster declaration in two weeks. Hurricane Ivan's remains drenched the region two weekends ago. The Neshaminy Creek crested Wednesday morning at over six feet above flood stage. The neighborhoods along the creek flood frequently, according to a release from the county's emergency operation center, so authorities reached out to over 700 homes to warn them of the rising water. County workers are assessing damages at this time.
Damage assessments are continuing in Montgomery County Wednesday as well, but officials are saying the damage is severe. "We've dispatched hundreds of pumps to help residents so far, so we expect a significant amount of residential damage," said Tom Sullivan, assistant director of public safety for the county. "We're still doing assessments, but it's pretty bad."
Sullivan said during the heavy rains, the county's 911 center fielded over 1,500 calls for help and emergency officials dealt with hundreds of water rescues. Three shelters are set up in the county.
Representatives from the Penn. Emergency Management Agency are touring Montgomery County Wednesday, while the Federal Emergency Management Agency will be in the area Thursday to survey damages.
Jeanne's swirling winds spawned two tornadoes Tuesday afternoon. One hit the New Castle County Airport in Delaware, tipping several C-130 cargo planes, damaging several buildings, and pushing cars off State Route 141. Several minor injuries were reported.
In New Jersey, National Weather Service officials confirmed that an F0 twister touched down in the Cherry Hill area, damaging 11 businesses, along with numerous cars in one shopping center parking lot. No injuries were reported.
A possible tornado touched down in Maryland's Calvert County, damaging a barn and another business. Areas of Maryland received over five inches of rain Tuesday.
A Maryland Emergency Management Agency spokesperson said the agency had received reports of minor localized flooding in some areas, with western Maryland's Frederick County seeing the most. For the most part, though, weather officials are saying Jeanne just caused a terrible evening rush hour for the Baltimore-Washington region.
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He is loved by all. He has contacts high in the British Establishment, yet went away with barely a warning. He is fond of profound remarks which nobody understands. A man famous for his colourful and unusual clothes. Somebody who is "available for other projects" - and makes a convincing Doctor. There is clearly only one man for the job.
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Now imagine someone will ask the question, "what's for dinner?"
Who will decide?
Jack Welch might say, "The shareholders get to choose what's for dinner, because the party is financed with their money."
Stephen Denning might say, "The customers get to choose, because the purpose of our business is to delight customers."
Gary Hamel might say, "The employees get to choose what we'll eat, because they are organizing the party."
And I'm sure other people are able to come up with various reasons for suppliers, governments, and local and on-line communities to be allowed the final say over the dinner menu. I would tell you about the needs of my hamster.
Of course, you know better.
A business is a social network of stakeholders participating in freedom for mutual benefit of everyone involved. Nobody is more important than the others.
But Stephen Denning says you cannot please everyone:
The mathematics of optimization shows that only one variable can be maximized. […] It is not possible to maximize both client delight and shareholder value. You have to choose one or the other. (Radical Management, Kindle location: 1386)
I wonder if Stephen Denning has any children. Will he always put the needs of the eldest first, because he doesn't know how to optimize the needs of all children in his Excel spreadsheet? And will he just ask one party guest to decide what's for dinner, because the problem of optimizing the sum of all needs across all guests is mathematically too hard for a manager?
That's silly.
A traditional manager 1.0 might simply ignore stakeholders and follow his own personal agenda when making business decisions. A manager 2.0 might do better when trying to apply somewhat simplistic management advice, such as "optimize shareholder value" or "delight the client". But I think a manager 3.0 will outperform all others. Because she understands a business is a complex adaptive system of stakeholders. They can all give and take, in endless iterations of collaboration, to please themselves and others.
A business is a non-zero sum game. You can and should delight everyone.
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Thursday, January 29, 2009
One of my poems.
I told you I would try to post some of my poems, and here one is. I know it's not perfect, but it's alright for now. I just had to write something about Mr. Spaniel, although I also started writing a poem about Mama's feet. I should finish that one, because I like it too.
This is the first draft of the poem, so any commentary is welcome, even if that includes, "Jessie- just write another poem."
Monster Party
I met him at my brother's monster party.
Me ironically showing up as a party monster-
Black heels, skin-tight 80s, glittery,
Jazz dance outfit that I found at Goodwill,
Hugging all the sexy and awkward curves
On my body. Feeling naked and silly,
I had nothing to hide. The lampshade
Strapped on my head, along with my giraffe
Legs, brought me close to seven feet tall.
He was a just-got-off-from-waiting-tables
Monster. Plaid shirt, wheat skin,
Intelligent, Dominican head,
And those orange old-school Nikes
Made him just under 5 feet, six inches tall.
Hearts on my fingers,
Hearts in my morning oatmeal,
Hearts on my Anatomy Lab notes-
I started tracing them everywhere.
Somehow I had turned into a Middle-School
Girl with a lovely crush on a boy.
Laughs, kisses, movies, and wet eyes,
I'm still finding his hairs embedded
In my carpet. I wake up knowing the head
(Or chest) from which these hairs came
Is no longer around for me to touch.
I didn't want it to end,
But with him saying he was afraid
Of being in love (again),
And me saying I just want
To love and be loved,
There was only one lonely answer
We both didn't want to hear.
So now I've learned that I shouldn't go
For the short monster afraid of love,
And also,
I need to vacuum the carpet more.
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009
This is not a poem.
My first poem for my fancy college poetry class is due tomorrow. Truth be told, the class isn't really fancy, nor does it feel like a college class. My teacher is twenty-four years old, and curses like he's one of my family members. What's up with that? The odd thing is, he's probably going to be one of the best teachers I have at FSU. He's enthusiastic about teaching, he wants to hear what his students have to say, and he gets us involved. What more could I want?
Well, what I would like is some direction is this freaking poem that I have to write and read out load to my fellow classmates tomorrow. I thought it would be quite simple and easy to write a poem about this time last year (or any other year around this time), but when I started writing, I realized that I've never written a poem without a structure outline or rules. That makes me feel a little sad about myself. I've never even finished writing a whole song, even though I've started many. I pretend to be an artist, but not for anybody but myself. The urge to be an artist is there, oh yes it certainly is, but I have never felt very successful.
I know I have my music, and for that I am very grateful, but I don't feel like I own it, if you know what I mean. In my family, I really have the least knowledge about it, it seems to effect me the least, and the truth is, I'm not a good listener. I don't even know the words to songs I've heard millions of times. Sometimes I'll be "singing" along to a song I know, and I realize I have never actually listened to the words. It really makes me sad, but then when I try to listen, I end up forgetting to listen and my mind wanders and I think about other things. And not important things, just stuff like, "What am I going to eat later? Man my lips are chapped. Why is that? I wish I didn't always have chapped lips. I should be thinking about other things. Gosh, I wish I was a deeper person..." And other silly, self-critizing crap.
Anyway, it's late and I really should get some sleep. Not to mention write that poem. Hah. I'm excited about tomorrow morning because I have to get up early for my first microbiology lab-we're going to be working with flames and Escherichia coli! That last statement was ment to be sarcastic, but now that I think about it, I really am kind of interested and excited. I like that hands-on stuff.
Wish me luck! I hope everyone that reads this, (meaning Mama, and maybe Hank and May) are all having very nice days.
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This is my first time participating in Special Needs Sunday! I am excited to collaborate with other teachers of exceptional children! The topic for this Sunday is word problems in math. I have had to completely modify word problems in my classroom because none of my students are readers yet. So, bring on the visual supports and manipulatives!
Mrs. Krumm: How many orange M&Ms do you have?
Frank: Three
Mrs. Krumm: (Writes 3 under the orange M&M marker) Awesome and how many green ones do you have?
Frank: Two
Mrs. Krumm: (Writes 2 under the green M&M marker) You got it! You have three orange M&Ms and two green M&Ms. How many M&Ms do you have all together? (Writes a plus sign between the 3 and 2)
Frank: Five!
Mrs. Krumm: (Writes an equal sign followed by a 5) Perfect! 3+2=5! Eat those M&Ms! Now how many do you have?
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In addition to working on self-control (I have a hard time not sneaking an M&M or two during this activity), I am also able to work on simple addition and subtraction while introducing the concept of word problems. I also write the number sentences on a dry-erase board so the students are seeing the operation symbols and number identification is being reinforced. For the rest of you with non-readers, how do you approach word problems?


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I am in the middle of trying to teach drama in summer school right now. Up until yesterday, I was actually quite pleased with the way the unit has been progressing. The students have mastered (mostly) the basic vocabulary, we have discussed and analyzed structures, and had some surprisingly interesting discussions based on themes and actions from the one-act plays we've read. Based on how well the kids have been handling the sprint through drama, I decided it was time to let them show their acting skills, and put on our own performance. *sigh* What is it that they say about best laid plans???
As any good teacher knows, you cannot just walk in on Monday morning and tell your class, "Hey, guess what? Today you are going to perform this entire play in front of the entire class!" You really need to ease into these activities. I thought I would begin with a quick review of the importance of staging, stage directions, and actors' expressions and gestures. Again, my students surprised me with a rather insightful discussion. Needless to say, I was growing ever more ecstatic, thinking that I just might be able to pull this off and have a great lesson AND performance. So, I introduced the warm-up activity. *sigh* And that is where the downward spiral began.
I had students count off, in order to put them into 5 groups. Unfortunately, as my luck would have it, FIVE of the most rambunctious students I have ever taught ended up in a group together. Looking back now, I know I should have split them up. However, I allowed myself to be swayed by their enthusiasm for the activity.
Ah... the activity... My brilliant idea... (Consequently, I do feel the need to admit that I came up with the idea for this particular activity while drinking a glass, or two, of wine.) Because the one-act play I wanted the kids to act out relies heavily on tone, facial expressions, and gestures, I thought the students needed some practice in matching their own tones, expressions, and gestures to corresponding emotions. So, I decided we would do a pantomime activity. The students would get into small groups, each group would be assigned 3-4 emotions, and would have to "mime" the emotion. The rest of the class would then have to guess the emotion. My goal was that my students would learn 1. how to over-exaggerate facial expressions and gestures for the sake of a stage performance and 2. appropriate expressions, gestures, and body language to convey emotions. (Sadly, many students today do not know how to adequately demonstrate emotion.) Lofty goal, apparently.
Group 3, the 5 rambunctious boys. And, because it DOES matter in this instance... 4 black kids, 1 white kid. Their emotion... NERVOUSNESS.
I call for Group 3 to come to the front. The lone white kid gets up and walks to the front of the room and faces the chalkboard. The four black kids arrange their desks in a 2 x 2 block and one pretends to be the "driver".
I can already see the impending disaster. But, before I can stop them...
The white kid begins to make gestures like he is withdrawing money from an ATM. The "car" rolls up and all four black kids jump out and rush towards the ATM, brandishing their "pretend" handguns. The white kid runs for his life...
The classroom erupts into wild laughter. I shake my head. Students begin calling out their guesses as to the emotion they were trying to portray.
Homicidal Mania!
Prejudice and Discrimination!
The five students in the group become exasperated with their classmates' guesses. "No, stupid! Nervousness! [White kid] was nervous." This, of course, causes the other students to laugh that much harder. I continue to shake my head, bewildered.
"Boys, I don't even know where to begin to explain all that was wrong with your performance."
"What do you mean? That was tight!"
"No, you completely missed the point. Pantomime is an over-exaggeration of facial expression and hand gestures, not a full on skit that perpetuates modern stereotypes. Seriously? You put the token white kid at the ATM?" I stifle my own laughter. "You jumped right over nervousness and plunged head first into terror, panic, and paralyzing fear."
"No way! [White kid] was nervous! Didn't you see his face when he saw us?"
"[White kid] was nervous when he first saw you in the 'car'. The minute you jumped out with guns waving he went straight to fear and terror. Again, you missed the point."
"But you said we had to over-exaggerate our actions."
I sigh, and shake my head. "No, I said you needed to over-exaggerate FACIAL EXPRESSIONS and HAND GESTURES, not kill someone in a drive-by shooting."
"Man, it wasn't no drive-by. It was armed robbery."
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If you make prostitution illegal it will go underground.
- The argument that criminalizing the purchase of sex will drive it "underground" is not based on any evidence. On the contrary, in Sweden and Norway—where the purchase of sex has been criminalized—the number of men buying sex has declined. Therefore, prostitution on the whole has declined.1
- "Underground" is another word for "indoor", "out of sight", or "below the law". Because the very nature of prostitution requires that it be visible to the clients who are seeking women for purchase, it is not possible for it to go so far underground that it can no longer be detected. If the men who purchase women are able to find the women, then trained police can surely locate the activity and arrest the johns.
- In 2009, after the law criminalizing the purchase of sex was enacted for the whole of Norway, the number of prostitution-related advertisements fell by 28 percent. This means that "underground" or "indoor" prostitution could not have increased as advertisements would have been necessary in order for buyers to find the women.2
- The same people who argue against criminalization because they believe it will drive prostitution indoors are the same people who argue that brothels should be legal because indoor prostitution is safer than street prostitution.
Legal/decriminalized prostitution will enable women to have better health and safer working environments. It will help prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) as mandatory health checks can be implemented, the women won't be afraid to carry condoms, ask for help from police when in danger, or seek help from health professionals.3
- Those who advocate for legalization and decriminalization are advocating for a model of law that protects the johns from the prostituted women so they can keep using them without becoming ill. This model would do nothing to protect the women from the buyers who are giving them life-threatening diseases and psychological trauma.
- For example, under laws that legalize and try to regulate prostitution, health check cards are often given to women. In theory, the cards can be presented to buyers as proof that the women have been tested and are disease free. Under these same laws, the buyers are never required to have health check cards to present to the women. This is a biased, sexist and unjust approach.
- Even when the women are tested for medical conditions, the tests are unreliable and invalid because many tests take days or weeks before the results are available. During that time, the women see more men who could be infected. STD health checks cannot reasonably detect or protect against STDs. The hazards are even more significant when considering the preferences of the male buyers. Throughout the world, study after study documents that about half of all johns request or insist that condoms are not used when they purchase sex.4
- The argument to legalize in order to "protect health" doesn't take into consideration that no matter how many condoms are used or how many "health checks" a woman gets, you cannot protect her from the Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and physiological/emotional trauma that 68 percent of all prostituted women will face.5 PTSD results from going through atrocities that you cannot mentally sustain.
- Arguing that STD testing prevents disease is like arguing that pregnancy tests prevent pregnancy. It is a fundamentally flawed line of reasoning to begin with. The argument to legalize in order to protect health also does not take into consideration the mental, emotional, and spiritual health of prostituted women. The only way to truly protect the health of a prostituted woman is to GET HER OUT OF PROSTITUTION.
Nothing is fundamentally problematic about prostitution itself. There is no intrinsic harm in prostitution; it is just consensual sex for money.
- Prostitution is inherently harmful and multiple studies over the last 30 years have proven this point.
- A recent field research study surveyed 854 prostituted women in nine countries. In five of these countries, prostitution is legal and regulated. The study concluded that 60–75 percent of women in prostitution were raped, 70–95 percent were physically assaulted, and 68 percent met the criteria for post-traumatic stress disorder in the same range as treatment-seeking combat veterans and victims of state-organized torture. 89 percent of the 854 prostituted women told the researchers that they urgently wanted to escape prostitution.6
- According to a UK Government report, more than half of women in prostitution in the UK have been raped and or seriously assaulted and at least 75 percent have been physically assaulted at the hands of pimps and johns.7
- The sexual service provided in prostitution is most often violent, degrading, and abusive. It can include sex between a buyer and several women; slashing the woman with razor blades; tying women to bedposts and lashing them until they bleed; biting women's breasts; burning the women with cigarettes; cutting her arms, legs and genital areas; and urinating and defecating on women.8
- A report in the British Medical Journal about client violence towards women in prostitution stated that of the 125 women in indoor prostitution contacted, 48% had experienced client violence. The types of violence experienced included: being slapped, punched, or kicked; robbery; attempted robbery; beaten; threatened with weapon; held against will; attempted rape; strangulation; kidnapped; attempted kidnap; forced to give client oral sex; vaginal rape and anal rape.9
- An article in the Michigan Journal of Gender and Law states, that, "It is not possible to protect the health of someone whose 'job' means that they will get raped on average once a week."10
- A study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology found the mortality rate of women in prostitution to be 200 times higher than that of the general population.11
- A mortality survey of 1,600 women in US prostitution noted that "no population of women studied previously had the percentage of deaths due to murder, even approximating those observed in our cohort. " In this survey, murder accounted for 50 percent of the deaths of women in prostitution.12
- Women who have worked in prostitution exhibit the same incidents of traumatic brain injury (TBI) as a result of being beaten, hit, kicked in the head, strangled or having one's head slammed into objects as has been documented in torture survivors.13
- Another "fault line in the denial of intrinsic harm appears when it is universally agreed that children should not be prostituted. Why not? If there is no inherent harm in prostitution and if it is just like any other job, why is it forbidden for children?"14
You cannot conflate sex trafficking with prostitution.
- "Prostitution and sex trafficking are linked. Sex trafficking happens when and where there is a demand for prostitution and a context of impunity for its customers. Legal prostitution sanitizes prostitution, making the harms of trafficking for prostitution invisible. Suddenly, dirty money becomes clean; illegal acts become legal. Overnight, pimps are transformed into legitimate businessmen. Men who would not have previously considered buying a woman in prostitution think, "Well, if it's legal, it must be okay."15
- In the 2007 "Trafficking in Persons Report," the US Department of State reported, "Sex trafficking would not exist without the demand for commercial sex flourishing around the world. Prostitution and related activities—including pimping and patronizing or maintaining brothels—encourage the growth of modern-day slavery by providing a façade behind which traffickers for sexual exploitation operate. Where prostitution is tolerated, there is a greater demand for human trafficking victims and nearly always an increase in the number of women and children trafficked into commercial sex slavery."
- According the US Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) and the Palermo protocol any child who is prostituted is automatically a victim of human trafficking. Study after study has demonstrated that a significant portion if not a majority of prostituted people enter prostitution underage. This means that most prostituted people, by definition, were victims of sex trafficking when they started prostituting. This begs the question, at what point does a person stop being a victim of human trafficking and turn into a "sex worker"? What happens to the nature of prostitution during the 24 hours between when a child is 17 years old and when she is 18 years old? Legal scholar Catherine Mackinnon points out that, "Prostituted women are prostituted children who were lucky enough to live long enough to become women. They are not two separate groups of people. They are the same group of people at different times in their lives."16
- Across cultures, at all levels of economic development, whether street or house, when people in prostitution are asked, "What do you need?", the answer of 89 percent of them give is to "[l]eave prostitution."17 The vast majority of women in prostitution want to leave but believe they cannot or do not know how. It has been argued that being in a situation of prostitution that you cannot get out of has been defined by Kathleen Barry as sexual slavery.18
The United Nations supports the decriminalization of prostitution.
- Resolution 317 adopted by the United Nations General Assembly titled the "Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others" directly and expressly opposes prostitution, pimping, and the maintenance of brothels.
- Article 1: The Parties to the present Convention agree to punish any person who, to gratify the passions of another:
- Procures, entices or leads away, for purposes of prostitution, another person, even with the consent of that person;
- Exploits the prostitution of another person, even with the consent of that person.
- Article 2: The Parties to the present Convention further agree to punish any person who:
- Keeps or manages, or knowingly finances or takes part in the financing of a brothel;
- Knowingly lets or rents a building or other place or any part thereof for the purpose of the prostitution of others.
- "Exploitation of prostitution," includes maintaining or knowingly financing a brothel19, that is to say a place in which one or more people are practicing as prostitutes, or knowingly letting or renting "a building or other place . . . for the purpose of the prostitution of others."20
- Article 1: The Parties to the present Convention agree to punish any person who, to gratify the passions of another:
- UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, explicitly stated in its 2009 guidance paper on HIV and Prostitution, "…in many countries, official policies principally focus on reducing or punishing the suppliers while ignoring the consistent demand for paid sex. The demand for sex work may be affected by social and cultural norms and individual circumstances, including work-related mobility and spousal separation; social isolation and loneliness; access to disposable income; and attitudes based on harmful gender norms, including a desire for sexual dominance and sense of entitlement, which may manifest in sexual and economic exploitation and violence against sex workers. When addressing HIV in the context of sex work, policies and programmes should not only focus on the needs of sex workers themselves but also address factors that contribute to the demand for paid sex."
- The argument that UNAIDS–through their 2011 report entitled "The Report on the UNAIDS Advisory Group" supports decriminalization is a misrepresentation of information. This report is often cited by pro-prostitution groups who claim that UNAIDS supports prostitution. In fact, the 2011 report was created by an "advisory group" whose authors were among others the "Global Network of Sex Work Projects." The document is prefaced with these words in large, bold print, "This document does not necessarily represent the views of all members of the Advisory group on HIV and Sex Work, nor the stated positions, decisions, or policies of the UNAIDS Secretariat or any of the UNAIDS Cosponsors."21
- When presented with the two options of criminalizing (both the prostituted person and the buyer) and decriminalization, the World Health Organization (WHO) chose to advocate for decriminalization based on the reasoning that criminalizing the prostituted woman causes her/him to fear approaching authorities for help, going in for health checks, and reaching out for medical care because of fears of being arrested and mistreated. However, the Nordic model does not criminalize the sale of sex. Therefore, the prostituted woman is protected and is able to reach out for help and health services without fear. In addition, the Swedish model goes a step further by offering prostituted women a way of escape and rehabilitation if they so choose.
- The World Health Organization (WHO) has not spoken out against the Nordic model. Because the model promotes the protection of prostituted women, it is reasonable to say that the WHO would in fact support the Nordic model of legislation.
- The WHO has recognized that prostituted women are at a much higher risk for HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases than the general population. The WHO states, "Sex workers, their clients and regular partners are key populations at risk for HIV infection."22
- The WHO has recognized the extreme physical and psychological harm inherent in prostitution. The WHO website publicized a recent research article that states: "Over and over again, conversations with sex workers worldwide reveal that the lack of personal safety is one of their main worries. Common examples of violence that sex workers face are verbal abuse or beatings from neighbours or passers-by, forceful arrest and harassment by police officers, robbery, gang rape, 'date rape' and even (attempted) murder. Other forms of violence are extortion by the police or criminals, blackmailing to get free or unprotected sex, and forced drug and alcohol use in brothels or other venues. Finally, sex workers can also suffer violence from the hands of fellow workers who compete for a good spot on the streets or the favours of a client, or from the hands of their intimate partners. Violence not only makes sex workers' working life more difficult, but also threatens their health and wellbeing. For instance, rape almost always takes place without the protection of a condom, raising fears about becoming pregnant or infected with an STI. Also their psychological health may be affected by extreme incidents of violence,"23
- In 2008, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon stated that there is a need for legislation that would protect vulnerable groups such as prostituted women. The Nordic model not only protects women in prostitution but offers them services for escape and rehabilitation. At the same time, it addresses the demand side of prostitution, recognizing that the industry is inherently harmful and dehumanizing. Ban Ki-Moon said, "…I call on all countries to live up to their commitments to enact or enforce legislation outlawing discrimination against people living with HIV and members of vulnerable groups…In countries without laws to protect sex workers…only a fraction of the population has access to prevention. Conversely, in countries with legal protection and the protection of human rights for these people, many more have access to services. As a result, there are fewer infections, less demand for antiretroviral treatment, and fewer deaths. Not only is it unethical not to protect these groups: it makes no sense from a public health perspective. It hurts us all." Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations.24
Prostituted women choose to be there and that choice is an expression of their freedom.
- "Prostitution is a product of lack of choice, the resort of those with the fewest choices, or none at all."25
- Children are not capable of making life-altering choices. US and International law recognizes this fact. Studies demonstrate that a majority of prostituted persons enter the sex trade underage.26 Therefore, they enter when they are not capable of such a choice.
- Everywhere in the world the majority of prostituted women are overwhelmingly suffering from poverty and there is no disagreement about this fact. Urgent financial need is the most frequent reason mentioned by prostituted women for being in the sex trade. No one chooses to be poor when given other options.
- In countries where prostituted women have been studied in depth, sexual abuse in childhood prior to entry into prostitution is a significant precondition for entry into the sex trade.27 One rarely meets women in prostitution who were not sexually or physically abused beforehand.28 No one chooses to be abused.
- The vast majority of people in prostitution are women and this is because of gender inequality. "If prostitution were a choice, one would think more men would be found exercising it. Nobody chooses the single attribute most prostituted people share, the single most powerful determinant of being sold for sex: the sex they are born with." No one chooses to be born a female.
- Disproportionately, women in prostitution are members of socially disadvantaged racial or ethnic groups (or lower castes in India, for example). No one chooses to be born into a disadvantaged racial group or lower caste.
- Additionally, women who supposedly consent to their prostitution, rarely, if ever, give informed consent. Informed consent would be presenting them with all of the available data on the inherent harms of prostitution before they are in a position to make the "choice".
- 1. Selected extracts of the Swedish government report SOU 2010:49: "The Ban Against The Purchase of Sexual Services. An evaluation" 1999-2008 Swedish Institute & Ministry of Justice. Also see The Swedish Law That Prohibits the Purchase of Sexual Services Best Practices for Prevention of Prostitution and Trafficking in Human Beings Gunilla Eckberg Ministry of Industry, Employment, and Communications Violence Against Women, Vol. 10 No. 10, October 2004 1187-1218 DOI: 10.1177/1077801204268647 2004. Also see "Targeting the Sex Buyer The Swedish Example: Stopping Prostitution And Trafficking Where it All Begins." Kajsa Claude 2010 The Swedish Institute. "New Conditions, New Opportunities" Annual Report, Pro Sentret (2009)
- 2. "New Conditions, New Opportunities" Annual Report, Pro Sentret (2009)
- 3. A portion of the material for the arguments presented here is based on works by legal scholar and women's rights expert Catherine Mackinnon.
- 4. For example Cunningham, L.C. & Christensen, C. (2001) Violence against women in Vancouver's street level sex trade and the police response. Vancouver: PACE Society
- 5. Farley, M., Cotton, A., Lynne, J., Zumbeck, S., Spiwak, F., Reyes, M. E., … & Sezgin, U. (2004). Prostitution and trafficking in nine countries: An update on violence and posttraumatic stress disorder. Journal of Trauma Practice, 2(3-4), 33-74.
- 6. Farley, Melissa et al. "Prostitution and Trafficking in Nine Countries: An Update on Violence and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder." Journal of Trauma Practice, Vol. 2, No. 3/4: 33-74, 2003; Farley, Melissa. Prostitution, Trafficking, and Traumatic Stress. Haworth Press, New York. 2003.
- 7. UK Home Office (2004) Solutions and Strategies: Drug Problems and Street Sex Markets: London: UK Government
- 8. Raymond, J., D'Cunha, J., Dzuhayatin, S. R., Hynes, H. P., Ramirez Rodriguez, Z., & Santos, A. "A Comparative Study of Women Trafficked in the Migration Process: Patterns, Profiles and Health Consequences of Sexual Exploitation in Five Countries (Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Venezuela and the United States)". N. Amherst, MA: Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW). 2002. Retrieved March 15, 2003, from http://action.web.ca/home/ catw/readingroom.shtml?x=17062
- 9. Church, S., Henderson, M., Barnard, M., & Hart, G. (2001). Violence by clients towards female prostitutes in different work settings: questionnaire survey. Bmj,322(7285), 524-525.
- 10. Hunter, S. K. "Prostitution is cruelty and abuse to women and children." Michigan Journal of Gender and Law, 1, 1-14. 1993.
- 11. J. Potterat, D. Brewer, S. Muth, R. Rothenberg, D. Woodhouse, J. Muth, H. Stite, and S. Brody, "Mortality in a Long-term Open Cohort of Prostitute Women," American Journal of Epidemiology 159:778–785, 2004. Longitudinal study of prostitution in Colorado Springs – sample size: 1,969 people in prostitution from 1967-1999.
- 12. Ibid.
- 13. Jacobs, U., & Iacopino, V. "Torture and its consequences: A challenge to clinical neuropsychology." Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 32, 458-464. 2001.
- 14. Mackinnon, Catherine.
- 15. A portion of the ideas presented here are based on the works of Melissa Farley, PhD, an expert in the field of prostitution research and education.
- 16. Mackinnon, Catherine.
- 17. Farley, Melissa et al. "Prostitution and Trafficking in Nine Countries: An Update on Violence and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder." Journal of Trauma Practice, Vol. 2, No. 3/4: 33-74, 2003; Farley, Melissa. Prostitution, Trafficking, and Traumatic Stress. Haworth Press, New York. 2003.
- 18. Kathleen Barry Phinto six languages. Her follow-up to Female Sexual Slavery, The Prostitution of Sexuality (1995) makes an important contribution to political philosophy and feminist theory by discussing the idea of "consent" in liberal modern American discourse and concluding that "every form of oppression is sustained" through apparent consent by the oppressed group or class to their exploitation. She further concludes that the normalization and acceptance of prostitution based on arguments of a prostituted persons consent ignores the human-rights principle that violation cannot be consented to. She states that women, as members of an oppressed class under patriarchy, are compelled to "consent" to their own sexual exploitation by society.D is the author of "Female Sexual Slavery" and "Prostitution of Sexuality". Barry's first book, Female Sexual Slavery (1979), prompted international awareness of human sex trafficking and has been translated
- 19. Suppression of Traffic Convention, supra note 83, art. 2(1).
- 20. Ibid., art. 2(2). Note that article 6 of the Convention requires States parties to put an end to licensing or "special
registration" of prostitutes.
- 21. The Report of the UNAIDS Advisory Group on HIV and Sex Work. 2011.
- 22. "Sex Work." World Health Organization. 2015. http://www.who.int/hiv/topics/sex_work/en/index.html
- 23. Ibid.
- 24. Secretary-General, In Address to the International AIDS Conference, Urges Enforcement of Legislation Outlawing Discrimination Against People Living with HIV. http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2008/sgsm11727.doc.htm
- 25. Mackinnon, Catherine.
- 26. Nadon, S.M., Koverola, C., Schludermann, E.H. (1gg8). Antecedents to Prostitution: Childhood Victimization. Journal of Interpersonal Violence 13. 206-221 : Silbert, M.H.& Pines, A.M. (1g82a).Entrance into Prostitution. Youih & Societv 13: 471-500:nssistant Oeputy Ministers' Committee on Prostitution and the Sexual Exploitation of Youth, (2000) Sexual exploitation of vouth in British Columbia. Vancouver: Ministry of the Attorney General;Mclntyre, S. (1995) The youngesf profess ion: The o/dest oppression Doctora, dissertation, Department of Law, University of Sheffield
- 27. Farley, M., Cotton, A., Lynne, J., Zumbeck, S., Spiwak, F., Reyes, M. E., … & Sezgin, U. (2004). Prostitution and trafficking in nine countries: An update on violence and posttraumatic stress disorder. Journal of Trauma Practice, 2(3-4), 33-74.; Farley, M, Lynne, J, and cotton, A (2005) prostitution in Vancouver: Violence and the Colonization of First Nations Women. Transcultural Psvchiatrv 42:242-27
- 28. R, Hunter, S. K. (1994) Prostitution is cruelty and abuse to women and children. Michiqan Journal of Gender and Law 1:1-14


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A brief introduction if you didn't read my other post - there were 580 reps in total and each group were assigned to a different accommodation. Each group of reps helped their freshers move in, took them to inductions, pre-drank with them, guided them to the venues, partied with them, looked after them when drunk and made sure they were having a good time. In a nutshell, reps are there to fill in the gap during the transition from having people around you 24/7, to being surrounded by swarms of people you've never met before. Some of the funny things I encountered included taking a drunk fresher home while she was crying and saying she hated everyone. I had to put her into her PJs because she was so intoxicated and unfortunately saw her vagina in the process. Another funny one was a boy who was so drunk he asked to go to Hong Kong when asked where he lived.
I was fortunate enough to be placed within the loveliest group. Our head rep was so lovely and so understanding, especially when I felt horrendously ill and he let me go home early (thanks Gary). Emma, Grace, I formed a very special friendship and spent the majority of the week cuddling and singing 'we're the three best friends that anyone could have'. Rikesh was also part of our close knit group, he was on the same wavelength as us all and we just really got on. The others in the group were all lovely, but those are the three I was probably closest to. We weren't just restricted to our halls, we made friends with other reps from other halls which was all part of the fun.
Some of my other friends were also fresher repping so it was so nice to see them on nights out too. We'd all excitedly jump on each other and try and fill each other in on what we'd been up to. In all honestly, some of the days and nights have merged into one because it was so full on. Going round halls in the daytime taking freshers to inductions, being out from around 6pm until around 3am with all the other reps and freshers and then getting up at 8am for a morning meeting was tiring to say the least. I was poorly in the middle of the week, managed to recover with a generous dose of Day Nurse and plenty of rest and then got ill on the last day. Not really ill, just a general cold and cough from being run down and overtired.
It's really hard to explain how much fun I had because there was a full nine days and nights worth of chatting, partying and repping. Although I'm absolutely knackered and slept for the best part of two days afterwards, I wouldn't change it for the world. I already want to do it next year and just hope the tops are a little nicer than canary yellow. It's safe to say you could spot us from a mile off. On a final note, it was also nice knowing that all we were doing was helping the new freshers settle in. It can be a completely daunting time for some people as it's a huge step and difficult to adjust. If I made one person's day a little easier by showing them the way to enrol, or made them feel a little less alone by chatting to them, then it's all been worthwhile.
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